Installation Wizard in Yumex

[Tim Lauridsen]

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 14:35 +0200, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
>   
>> Hi.
>>
>> I just stumbled over easyUbuntu [1] and got a idea to add some kind of 
>> installation Wizard in yumex, to make it easy to add all the
>> extra stuff need to get your fedora running.
>>
>>    * Nvidia drivers.
>>    * ATI Drivers
>>    * NTFS support.
>>    * MP3 support.
>>    * Movie player with codecs. (Mplayer, gstreamer etc).
>>    * Java
>>    * Flash
>>
>> I want to make some kind of XML format to creating the Wizard entries 
>> and the actions behind. The different people can make there own wizards  
>> and people can just drag and drop an URL to a  wizard XML into yumex to 
>> add the wizard entries to the installation wizard. This could be a way 
>> to close the gap between a FOSS distribution and the non free or patent 
>> related stuff, there never can be included in Fedora.
>> Let me now what you think, is it a totally lame idea or is it a way to go.
>>     
>
> It's a nice idea, but...
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_infringement#Active_inducement_of_infringement
>
>   
I just want to code a easy way to install things, not try to break any 
patent, i will not include anything illegal into yumex, but people 
located i place where software patents don't exist, can make a wizard 
plugin to install the stuff hosted in places like livna or freshrpms.
I same way as yum and rpm can be used to installed patent releated 
stuff, but it is not the purpose of the application.

Tim
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